v9: Climate & Environmental Signals — The Sixth Dimension
WakeUpNeo.ai adds a dedicated climate and environmental signal — tracking extreme weather, ecosystem collapse, climate policy, and scientific breakthroughs from NOAA Climate News, Carbon Brief, Inside Climate News, and Climate Home News. The climate score is the mean of the top-10 scored climate articles and carries 10% weight in the final blend. All six signals are now rebalanced for equal visibility: 30% geo + 18% health + 18% market + 15% cyber + 10% climate + 9% space.
Five of WakeUpNeo.ai's signals track near-term threats: geopolitical conflict, disease outbreaks, financial stress, cyber attacks, and space weather. All are measured in days to hours. But the sixth dimension of civilisation-level risk — climate and environmental collapse — unfolds over years. That doesn't make it less urgent. Extreme heat waves, catastrophic flooding, ecosystem tipping points, and climate-driven displacement are no longer distant projections. They are happening now, driving international policy, migration, and economic disruption. v9 adds a dedicated climate signal to aggregate and quantify this expanding threat dimension.
Four new sources
| Source | Veracity | Poll interval | Coverage focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBC Climate & Environment | 0.90 | 15 min | BBC News section on climate and environmental science. Official coverage of extreme weather, ecosystem collapse, climate policy, and scientific research. Rapid updates on acute climate events and IPCC/COP announcements. |
| Carbon Brief | 0.90 | 30 min | Science-focused climate journalism covering climate policy, research breakthroughs, carbon markets, and renewable energy transitions. Tracks IPCC reports, COP meetings, and net-zero commitments from governments and corporations. |
| Inside Climate News | 0.88 | 30 min | Pulitzer Prize–winning climate and energy journalism. Covers environmental policy, fossil fuel phase-out, indigenous rights, climate litigation, and climate adaptation in the Global South. Strong investigative depth. |
| Climate Home News | 0.82 | 60 min | Climate, energy, and development news with a Global South focus. Covers climate refugees, climate finance, loss-and-damage frameworks, and climate justice narratives often missing from English-language outlets. |
The climate scoring pool
Climate articles are scored using the same four-factor composite as all other signals — urgency (40%), sentiment (30%), veracity (20%), recency (10%) — with a v9 urgency lexicon expanded to include climate-specific keywords: climate change, global warming, heatwave, drought, wildfire, flood, hurricane, typhoon, methane, carbon dioxide, net-zero, IPCC, COP28, ecosystem collapse, sea level rise, permafrost thaw, coral bleaching, extinction, climate refugee, and climate emergency. The climate score is the mean of the top-10 scored climate articles in the 72-hour window. Like health and cyber, the tighter pool (top-10 versus top-100 for geo) ensures acute climate events and scientific announcements register prominently while routine climate policy updates don't inflate the score.
New blend — v9
score = 0.30 × GeoSignal + 0.18 × HealthSignal + 0.18 × MarketStress + 0.15 × CyberSignal + 0.10 × ClimateSignal + 0.09 × SpaceWeather
All signals are rebalanced to make room for climate. Geo drops from 35% to 30%, market and health from 20% to 18% and 18%, and space weather from 10% to 9%. Cyber stays at 15% as a foundational infrastructure threat. Climate enters at 10%, the same weight as health. The total is 100%. As with all signals, missing data is handled gracefully — if the climate feeds are unavailable, the climate weight is redistributed proportionally across the remaining signals so the final score always sums to 1.
| Signal | v8 weight | v9 weight | Pool size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geopolitical News | 35% | 30% | Top 100 geo articles |
| Health / Outbreak | 20% | 18% | Top 10 health articles |
| Market Stress | 20% | 18% | 4 financial indicators (VIX, Gold, Treasury, WTI) |
| Cyber / Infrastructure | 15% | 15% | Top 5 cyber articles |
| Climate / Environmental | — | 10% | Top 10 climate articles (new) |
| Space Weather | 10% | 9% | NOAA Kp + GOES X-ray flux |
Why now
Climate has always been a long-term signal. But acute climate events — record heat waves, devastating floods, unprecedented wildfires — are accelerating and increasingly dominating global news and policy. A meter designed to capture global risk cannot ignore the fastest-growing threat dimension. The climate signal completes the full picture: six independent dimensions of human and environmental stress, aggregated into a single 0–10 risk score.